Upper mesosphere dynamical behavior near South Pole

• Main Authors: Hernandez,Gonzalo, Smith,Roger W.
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Graduate Program in Geophysics, University of Washington/Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska 1997
• Subjects: Amundsen-Scott; Austral; South Pole; South pole
• Online Access: https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_uri&item_id=4207; http://id.nii.ac.jp/1291/00004207/; https://nipr.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=repository_action_common_download&item_id=4207&item_no=1&attribute_id=18&file_no=1

Recent ground-based measurements of the neutral winds and temperatures at mesospheric heights near the Earth's rotational pole, at Amundsen-Scott Station, show that the neutral atmosphere has a restricted zonal wavenumber behavior at very-high latitudes. This can be interpreted as the natural r...